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opting out will not ulop health care exchanges from eeing set up in texas. if the state doesn't do it, federal authorities will. now, texas leaders were betting that the supreme court would likely strike down the health care law so they've done little to prepare for the exchanges that must be set up by 2014. but, scott, a provision in the health care law does specify tion even if federal authorities do set up the exchanges, texas could petition to take over heose exchanges eventually at some point if they chose to. >> pelley: anna, thank you. wounded veterans are being forced to wait months and longer for their benefits. a report links man-made climate change to extreme weather. and this is about as extreme as it gets. where this hurricane is headed, when the "cbs evening news" continues. in florida we had more suntans... in alabama we had more beautiful blooms... in mississippi we had more good times... in louisiana we had more fun on the water. last season we broke all kinds of records on the gulf. this year we are out to do even better... and now is a gre
opting out will not ulop health care exchanges from eeing set up in texas. if the state doesn't do it, federal authorities will. now, texas leaders were betting that the supreme court would likely strike down the health care law so they've done little to prepare for the exchanges that must be set up by 2014. but, scott, a provision in the health care law does specify tion even if federal authorities do set up the exchanges, texas could petition to take over heose exchanges eventually at some...
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in texas, to emily ramshaw, editor of the "texas tribune," and here with an overview in washington, to margot sanger- katz, health care correspondent for "national journal." march go, i want to start with you. give us a sense in general about what this resistance is about, who is resisting and why. >> i think there are two main reasons why we're seeing resistance from governors, one i think is political. they don't like the health care reform law, they have made arguments against it all along and this is a way of rejecting it and saying we don't want to participate in obama care, we don't want to help implement this law. the second problem is that a lot of these governors are concerned about the long-term costs associated with expanding their medicaid perhaps. the governors that have chosen not to implement tend to be in poorer states, and what means is they don't cover a lot of people on medicaid out in, but they would have to cover a lot if they did this. and time the share that states will have to pay will increase. >> ifill: do we know what those dollar signs are like yet? >> you k
in texas, to emily ramshaw, editor of the "texas tribune," and here with an overview in washington, to margot sanger- katz, health care correspondent for "national journal." march go, i want to start with you. give us a sense in general about what this resistance is about, who is resisting and why. >> i think there are two main reasons why we're seeing resistance from governors, one i think is political. they don't like the health care reform law, they have made...
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from dallas, texas, the flash apparently official. >> pelley: anthony mason reports on the moments that americans call the most memorable in television history. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. gunfire took down three more people last night in chicago. homicides in america's third-largest city are up 38% this year. almost all of them casualties in the gang war. but the victims are not all gang members. innocent children are being shot. monday mayor rahm emanuel said this: . >> you got two gang bangers, one standing next to a kid. get away from that kid. take your stuff to the alley. don't touch the children of the city of chicago. don't get her near them. >> pelley: the gangs didn't get the message. last night three children were shot-- a 12-year-old girl, a 14-year-old boy and 13-year-old tishona poke. she was shot in a leg in a city park. crime is down in chicago in all categories except this surge in homicides. what's driving the violence? we asked dean reynolds to help us find out. >> almost all of the violence we
from dallas, texas, the flash apparently official. >> pelley: anthony mason reports on the moments that americans call the most memorable in television history. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. gunfire took down three more people last night in chicago. homicides in america's third-largest city are up 38% this year. almost all of them casualties in the gang war. but the victims are not all gang members....
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in human rights abuses and there are indications in two thousand and three the brownsville herald in texas reported that the mexican city secretary defense revealed that the original members at least one third of the original members of the set those drug cartel would receive u.s. training and were mexican special forces who later turned over to the drug cartels so it's quite possible that this school is training the dictators of tomorrow is exactly right and the pentagon refuses to release the names of the graduates since two thousand and four so we continue to press the government to release those names of instructors and graduates and to continue to take our protests to school it seems shocking to me that there wouldn't be some in the wake of. nine eleven other . dictators that did attend this school that there aren't more safeguards to prevent this from happening whatever that may be unfortunately that's right the school the americas once they change their name to the western hemisphere institute for security cooperation established a rubberstamp board oversight board which does little
in human rights abuses and there are indications in two thousand and three the brownsville herald in texas reported that the mexican city secretary defense revealed that the original members at least one third of the original members of the set those drug cartel would receive u.s. training and were mexican special forces who later turned over to the drug cartels so it's quite possible that this school is training the dictators of tomorrow is exactly right and the pentagon refuses to release the...
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texas republican lamar smith. >> obamacare is a massive tax hike on the middle-class. >> the bill is passed. >> reporter: but today's measure will suffer the same fate as the other full repeal efforts which sailed through the republican-controlled house but died, predictably, in the democratically controlled senate. michigan democrat john dingle. >> i say shame. you're wasting the time of the american people. you're wasting the time of the congress. >> reporter: and time is precious on capitol hill where house leaders have scheduled only 42 more working days between now and the end of the year when critical deadlines loom. the bush-era tax cuts are set to expire then for everyone and steep across-the-board spending cuts will kick in. there's been little attempt to seek common ground on those issues or on funding the government which must be done by october or on tacking the nation's 8.2% unemployment rate. republican leader eric cantor spearheaded today's repeal effort: you've held something like 33 votes already about repealing the president's health care law. haven't you made your
texas republican lamar smith. >> obamacare is a massive tax hike on the middle-class. >> the bill is passed. >> reporter: but today's measure will suffer the same fate as the other full repeal efforts which sailed through the republican-controlled house but died, predictably, in the democratically controlled senate. michigan democrat john dingle. >> i say shame. you're wasting the time of the american people. you're wasting the time of the congress. >> reporter:...
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the gulf of mexico making its way up here but in the meantime it's producing flooding in the houston texas area and we have heat warnings out west some of that will be heading our way this weekend the chance of rain this weekend is very light it will be spotty here and there we really need a good drenching of maybe 3 in. are more we will look for tomorrow to be around 90 degrees in joy this beautiful day mostly sunny skies around 88 degrees 80 degrees at the beaches ... for tonight it will be clear. not at school as the 64 decrees we had last night ... tomorrow 91 degrees 84 at the lakefront friday will become humanid.. and temperatures will remain in the '90s time for today's trivia: in what year was baseball's national league formed? a. 1872 b. 1876 c. 1901 the answer still to come this midday.... the most destructive wildfires in colorado history has been contained. officials made the announcement yesterday the 29 square miles orwaldo canyon fire ravaged northwest colorado for two to three weeks killing two people and destroying 350 homes more than 30,000 people were forced away from th
the gulf of mexico making its way up here but in the meantime it's producing flooding in the houston texas area and we have heat warnings out west some of that will be heading our way this weekend the chance of rain this weekend is very light it will be spotty here and there we really need a good drenching of maybe 3 in. are more we will look for tomorrow to be around 90 degrees in joy this beautiful day mostly sunny skies around 88 degrees 80 degrees at the beaches ... for tonight it will be...
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the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mrs. hutchison: madam president, i ask unanimous consent i be allowed to speak for up to ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. hutchison: i applaud the senator from massachusetts for introducing the bill. he is trying to make a constitutional way that those who have done the service for our country and earned the medals are assured that those medals mean something and cannot be in any way misrepresented without a consequence. so i thank the senator from massachusetts. i'm going to rise today to talk about this week's issue, which is taxes on our nation's small businesses. small businesses, madam president, are the economic engine of america. it's not big business. jobs are created by small businesses that grow and become medium sized businesses. they are responsible for driving most of the job he growth -- job growth in this country. 55% of private-sector jobs are created by small business. punishing them with new taxes in a time of economic stagnation is incomprehens
the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mrs. hutchison: madam president, i ask unanimous consent i be allowed to speak for up to ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. hutchison: i applaud the senator from massachusetts for introducing the bill. he is trying to make a constitutional way that those who have done the service for our country and earned the medals are assured that those medals mean something and cannot be in any way misrepresented without a consequence....
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in my state of texas we have six billion people who are uninsured. in harris county where i have my congressional district, we have 1.1 million people uninsured. 20% of the state's children were uninsured. 50% of americans were uninsured. 45,000 persons per year were dying because of a lack of insurance. that's one person every 12 minutes. if you don't like that, call harvard. i got the statistics from harvard. the system was not sustainable. this is why we embarked upon producing this bill. so i beg that those who insisted that i read this bill before voting, please understand that before you vote you ought to read this bill. and compare the two. mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair will now recognize the gentlewoman from new york, ms. hayworth, for five minutes. . mr. hayworth: as a frequent rider on new york's mass transit system, i know how important the transportation system is. the m.t.a. alone transports more than 8.5 million commuters across met
in my state of texas we have six billion people who are uninsured. in harris county where i have my congressional district, we have 1.1 million people uninsured. 20% of the state's children were uninsured. 50% of americans were uninsured. 45,000 persons per year were dying because of a lack of insurance. that's one person every 12 minutes. if you don't like that, call harvard. i got the statistics from harvard. the system was not sustainable. this is why we embarked upon producing this bill. so...
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there are now five republican governors, texas, south carolina, louisiana, who have said that they're not going to take florida, who are saying they're not going to take the medicaid money. politico added it up and we found this means one in five of the people who would have been eligible for additional coverage under obamacare, now are not. there's a bunch more governors still looking at it. >> what's the justification? for opting out? >> they're saying we've been given the chance by the supreme court to get free one thing from washington, we're going to do it virginia governor bob mcdonnell is thinking about it. another big state -- >> you could potentially have 26 governors, democrats say that won't happen -- >> what does that mean? >> it's half the country would not be buying in. you know, theoretically the whole thing works because of scale and if you don't have the size of people getting into those exchanges air got a real problem. >> they were counting on those states, all states, participating so when you had the 26 states sue, and then win on that point, on the medicaid point
there are now five republican governors, texas, south carolina, louisiana, who have said that they're not going to take florida, who are saying they're not going to take the medicaid money. politico added it up and we found this means one in five of the people who would have been eligible for additional coverage under obamacare, now are not. there's a bunch more governors still looking at it. >> what's the justification? for opting out? >> they're saying we've been given the chance...
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kissner did not know exactly what he had but the sports collectible experts at heritage auctions in texas did. >> we believe this is the most significant find in the history of the hobby. when they sent in the package and we initially opened it up, our reaction was oh, my god, these are the nicest condition examples of this series that we've ever seen. >> these cards were given away as a candy promotion around 1910. they include such baseball luminaries as ty cobb, cy young and christy mathewson. today's value, about $3 million. cards like these are graded on a so-called psa scale of one to ten. >> the biggest surprise? when chris called me and said one of the cards graded at a psa 10. i went, great. which one? honus wagner. >> the mona lisa of baseball cards. >> the kissner grandfather is survived by about 20 family members who will divide the windfall when the cards are auctioned off next month. it's safe to say they'll be telling a story for generations about how a simple home cleaning turned into a financial home run. for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, los angeles. >> people are going
kissner did not know exactly what he had but the sports collectible experts at heritage auctions in texas did. >> we believe this is the most significant find in the history of the hobby. when they sent in the package and we initially opened it up, our reaction was oh, my god, these are the nicest condition examples of this series that we've ever seen. >> these cards were given away as a candy promotion around 1910. they include such baseball luminaries as ty cobb, cy young and...
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announced the first scientific connection between extreme weather events like last year's drought in texas, and man-made climate change. a new study found that man-made heat made the texas drought roughly 20 times more likely. >> there definitely is a connection between greenhouse gases and extreme weather. we're seeing very strong evidence to suggest that not all, but many of the extremes that we're seeing around the planet are being enhanced by greenhouse gases. >> and every day in this record setting heat takes more of jeff fischer's crop and his livelihood away. >> it's stressful. it's stressful on myself and my family, my father and i. this is a family farm. and we've watched it go down and down and down. >> reporter: noaa scientists, meanwhile, are not saying that climate change causes any one specific drought like the one in illinois. they are saying the science is good enough now, they can lay odds on the connection. lee and erica? >> wyatt andrews, thank you. >>> security for this month's london olympics is a massive operation as you can imagine. on tuesday, some residents who fou
announced the first scientific connection between extreme weather events like last year's drought in texas, and man-made climate change. a new study found that man-made heat made the texas drought roughly 20 times more likely. >> there definitely is a connection between greenhouse gases and extreme weather. we're seeing very strong evidence to suggest that not all, but many of the extremes that we're seeing around the planet are being enhanced by greenhouse gases. >> and every day...